Now, that was awesome. People keep talking about the "King". I've been telling them, that we (Pistons) got a "Prince" and he's going reign in this series. Now, I know LeBron is going to bounce back for Game 2, but he isn't going to have it easy, like he did in the Washington series.

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Yep, Tay will do whatever to slow Lebron down, and as of game 1 he gaurded him tough and wore him down with his offense. Lets see if he can keep it up as the series progresses.

1. BEN WILL show up. He will get 12/13 RPG AND average 11 PPG. He will totally nuetralize Gooden and the Cavs have no big man off the bench who can handle... 2. THE DICENATOR. Dice must show in the post area. I like his j's but I prefer his drives and putbacks. 12PPg and 8RPg for the Dice Man will make it an even balltle for..... 3. SHE-EED vs Z-Ill. All sheed has to do is stay even with him meaning 15.5 PPg will be enough and we need his out game more than his post game to pull Z-Ill away from the basket. That will allow for the best mismatch of all......... 4. THE PISTON GUARDS X 4. The cavs have no defense in their backcourt that can keep any of them from doing what they to. I see at least two 30 pt-games for Chauncey while Rip will avg 6 APG , mostly to Ben on the pick and slam! I see at least one 15 point game for T-D and Lindsay will frustrate Snow and Murray as usual. The guards dominating will allow the defensive scheme to work, meaning..... 5. TAY CAN FOCUS JUST ON D. James will avg 28 PPG just on the common sense that he will take 25 shots per game and be given 8 FT's per game. If we can make James average more shots than points(i.e. 30 pts on 32 shots), We can take the rest of the Cavs out the game mentally. When King does well, the others tag along like little girls. All tay has to do is make him work. Tay will average 7 PPG and still have a great series.

PISTONS IN 5......BTW, I will continue to punk Damon Jones like the liitle sissy he is until I bury him . Eva Longoria got more game than him. He will shoot 2-18 in the series. The little wuss...

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wELL LETS see how I did.... 1. Ben got 11 rebs and did totally shut down Gooden sans a couple of weak Off rebs. Do the cavs actually 'have' a backup center..... 2. Dice showed everywhere. An overwhelming performsnce and a great slam off a pass from sheed... 3. Sheed 22 min, 10 pts , 7 rebs...Z. 24 min, 14 pts, 5 rwbs...bout as even as u can get 4. Pistons 51-Cavs 20...not even close-wont even be close... 5. Tay vs Bron...although I thought Tay would sacrifice his scoring, I had a feeling he 'd take the challenge offensively. His best game ever in my mind. And as far as that little woman in the Cav uniform did tonight, 0 for 3 and just as weak as ever, damon( She) is so cute!:P ...all the cowbell gods were aligned today!!!!

was @ the game, it was amazing. when lindsey was going for his first 3-pointer, i said to the guy next to me 'uh oh i don't like this, lindsey's dribbling down the shot clock and is gonna jack up the three', then he made it. then 3 more. great environment today, only a very small lapse in crowd noise at the start of the 3rd, but the palace quickly got rocking again.

That game was a riot. Wow. Tay's block on LBJ (does anyone else have a hard time because those initials make them think of Lyndon Johnson?) and Ben's on Gooden; some of Chauncey's needle-threading zip passes; Lindsey dropping into the triple zone; and just overall the unbelievable shooting. (And I agree Max, they won't be that hot every game, especially not from behind the arc, but we've got to trust that had they not been that hot, they would have done other things -- eliminating second chance opportunities for example -- that much better in order to compensate).

The only thing that broke my heart yesterday -- as someone with a soft spot for Delfino -- was one play where he drove the lane and shoveled off to Dale Davis, who wasn't even looking for the pass so that it sailed out of bounds. On the way back up, Delfino just looked at DD and held his hands out, palms up, as if to say, "huh?" (this was after Delfino had already thrown two passes away for which he alone was to blame). That made me think about some of Delfino's beautiful play with the starters earlier in the season (just about up until his horrendous performance when he started for Rip against the Magic, I think it was) and how far, though his effort is still there, he's slipped. I like the guy and I like his game okay and I hope he gets to go somewhere else because this team is just too good and he'll never get the minutes necessary to really develop his potential (whatever it might be). At least he got to drain a triple.

yeah on a sidenote, we had more turnovers than the cavs (10 to 9). of course, 3 were from delfino and 2 were from davis, so...yeah.

it was hilarious when varejao ran down the court for his two dunks in garbage time. the first time he tried to slam the ball so hard and almost tripped and fell over after he was done. i yelled out "don't hurt yourself!", and then the next time he tried to do a head fake while dribbiling and it was just not a pretty site.

I'm having problems getting my mind around this game. I'm really wasn't expecting a full blown blow out. Even the cat got up and wandered off around the middle of the third quarter.

The Pistons took a load of threes, but other than Hunter's heat-check-I'm-putting-it-up-as-soon-as-I-cross-midcourt heaves, they seemed to flow right out of the offense. Good chance they won't hit that many again, but also pretty good chance they wouldn't have taken that many if they weren't going down.

Five turnovers when it counted is pretty impressive, along with all the blocks, etc.